Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes
The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.
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It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.
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I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
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The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'
